CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Solana (SOL) Drops 5.6%, Leading Index Lower

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2814.47, down 1.6% (-46.85) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Ten of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: LTC (+7.9%) and ICP (+2.2%). Laggards: SOL (-5.6%) and UNI (-4.3%). … Read more

Lock screen platform Glance launches AI-powered shopping experience, gets fresh backing from Google

Lock screen platform Glance announced today that it is launching a new generative AI-based shopping experience. It will suggest different outfits on a user’s personalized avatar. The company is partnering with Google to use the company’s Gemini models and Vertex AI to deploy the experience. Separately, the company also got fresh backing from Google — … Read more

Google makes it easier to remove your contact information from Search results

You can now request removals directly on the offending Search results. Google is making it easier to remove and update Search results that contain your personal information. The company’s “Results about you” tool for detecting personal information like addresses and phone numbers that appear in Search has been updated to make it “easier than ever” … Read more

Framework Desktop hands-on: a possible new direction for gaming desktops

The Framework Desktop. Framework’s mission is to “fix consumer electronics, one category at a time” by making them modular, repairable, and upgradable. It’s the only laptop maker to ever truly succeed at that “upgradable” part. But desktop PCs are already modular, so why is Framework making one? At first, I thought it saw a unique … Read more

Ondo Finance to Bring RWAs to Mastercard Network

Tokenized real-world assert (RWA) issuer Ondo Finance has joined the Mastercard network that connects financial institutions with businesses to improve cross-border payments. Ondo’s Short-Term U.S. Government Treasuries Fund (OUSG) investment product will be available to businesses on Mastercard’s Multi-Token Network (MTN), giving them access to yield via tokenized assets, according to an emailed announcement on … Read more

Delta Blockchain Founder Kavita Gupta Unveils Cross Chain Interoperability Startup

Delta Blockchain Fund founder Kavita Gupta is fronting a new startup called Inclusive Layer, designed to help people build blockchain applications on multiple chains without deep coding expertise. The product aims to abstract away technical friction and create liquidity aggregation between Ethereum, Solana, Base, Polygon or Arbitrum, according to a press release. The first app … Read more

Qualcomm wants to bring longer Android support to more phones

More Android phones could soon provide longer lifetime support updates thanks to a new agreement between Qualcomm and Google. Qualcomm announced on Monday that “up to eight consecutive years of software and security updates” will be available to Android phones running on future Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 7-series chips. As Android specialist Mishall Rahman points … Read more

Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training

Despite employers requiring their employees to complete yearly cybersecurity training courses, human-driven cybersecurity breaches still happen. The problem could even get substantially worse as generative AI increases the scale and personalization of social engineering campaigns. Anagram, formerly known as Cipher, is taking a new approach to employee cybersecurity training that the company hopes can keep … Read more

Regie.ai injects sales enablement with AI, but keeps humans in the loop

There’s no sure-fire approach to sales enablement, the process of providing a sales team with the resources it needs to close deals. Some teams are deficient on the prospecting side — that is, identifying and contacting potential customers. Others require help getting deals over the finish line. To meet these diverse wants, founders Matt Millen … Read more

Avalanche Visa Card Goes Live Aiming to Further the Mass Adoption of Crypto

The Avalanche Foundation, the non-profit that helps steward the development of the Avalanche blockchain, said its much-anticipated Avalanche Card, a Visa credit card that allows users to purchase items with their cryptocurrency, is live and ready to be used. The card was developed in collaboration with Rain, a blockchain-based card issuing platform. It enables users … Read more